Marc Buyens
Bonheiden, Belgium
just choosing paths...
Analyst, management consultant and managing director of Xpragma
Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).
His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.
MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).
Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art
Marc founded Xpragma in 1999 after a 20+ years career in the IT-sector where he held various technical, commercial and management positions in companies such as CIG (later acquired by CSC), Tandem Computers (now: HP) and Candle Corporation (now: IBM).
His current interests focus on the boundary of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
Some of Marc's ideas and insights are published via the Xpragmatic View, a regular column on his website, http://www.xpragma.com/, also available as an RSS-feed at http://www.xpragma.com/english/rss/xpven.xml.
MSc - Civil Engineer electromechanics - Catholique University of Leuven (Belgium), MBA - Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School (Belgium).
Private interests: nature, music, literature, travel, philosophy, cosmology, modern art
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Reaching for the edge - The Xpragmatic ViewThe Xpragmatic View #129 October 25, 2009 by Marc Buyens ( @mbuyens ), Xpragma Download as a PDF-file Real solutions and progress emerge when we are able to unify apparently conflicting views on the same reality. Do emergent social software platforms (ESSPs) provide a context for ...
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The M-Shaped Recovery - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.orgRehabilitation begins with the understanding that it's brain-dead to build an economy on Big Macs, SUVs, and McMansions. Why? They don't make others authentically, durably better off. In fact, their net economic effect is this: they simply transfer value from the poorest to the richest.
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Lessons Learned -- Why the Failure of Systems Thinking Should Inform the Future of Design Thinking | Manage by Designing | Fast Company"You never learn by doing something right ‘cause you already know how to do it. You only learn from making mistakes and correcting them." Russell Ackoff
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Enterprise 2.0: Skip the PilotEnterprise 2.0: Skip the Pilot Michael Idinopulos August 27, 2009 - 6:51 PM Get out your pitchforks, I'm about to commit Enterprise 2.0 heresy. There's an orthodoxy in Enterprise 2.0 circles about how you're supposed to run an implementation. The orthodoxy goes something like this: ...
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The remainders of the day - The Xpragmatic ViewThe Xpragmatic View #123 August 27, 2009 by Marc Buyens , Xpragma Download as PDF-file In management, failure seems to be the only way to get to insight. Whatever the level of experience we have built up in the past, as soon as we have to make decisions in a new context, we tend to ...
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Business processes are not your businessHello Kurt, Thanks for the comments. You are of course right, but you are a BPM-guy. Let me tell you a bit about the background of this. Several years ago, I participated as a coach in the e-Business Strategy training program of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. This was a ...Marc Buyens added to Business Interaction Management (BIM) 7 months ago
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The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery PlanOff-topic but a few of his ideas are interesting in the context of interactions within an organisation.Marc Buyens added to Business Interaction Management (BIM) 11 months ago
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Add items shared with you to interest feedThat is correct. However, the problem (for me) is that I pay little attention to such e-mail messages. I work a lot off-site at customer premises where I prefer not mixing my personal stuff and theirs. Therefore, I only read my personal e-mail once or twice a day. At such moment, I mostly ignore ...Marc Buyens added 11 months ago
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HolarchyVery valid points and very visually described. I like the idea of diving managers. Still, nothing blocks them from doing so today. In fact, most of what you describe can also be possible in a traditional hierarchical organisation. Perhaps no natural fit, but still possible and I can even say ...Marc Buyens added to Organizational Behavior 11 months ago
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HolarchyInteresting questions and the very essence of the twine I started myself on “Organisational change”. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward answer. Rearranging the boxes in a graph is an interesting starting point for discussion, but does not provide a solution. As an example, in your ...Marc Buyens added to Organizational Behavior 11 months ago
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